The recent terror attacks in Mumbai cast its shadow on the ongoing International Film Festival of India (IFFI) 2008 in Panaji.

The IFFI observed a moment of silence in the memory of those who died in the recent terror attacks in Mumbai.

“Wherever possible, I will personally go to the theatres to observe one-minute silence,” stated Festival Director S M Khan.

The state police have beefed up the security of hotels around the IFFI venue.

Cairo  - Egyptians who flooded a cinema hall in downtown Cairo were curious to watch a movie based on a masterpiece by Nobel Prize-winning writer Naguib Mahfouz, especially because the film adaptation had a Mexican flavour.

Directed by Arturo Ripstein, The Beginning and The End is based on a Mahfouz novel of the same title. The 1993 film tells the story of a middle-class Mexican family struggling against poverty after the death of the husband and father.

Finally the viewers will get to see the telecast of fresh episodes and new content by all the Hindi general entertainment channels, which went into a forced break since 10th November. 

From 1st December, 2008, the TV viewers who were missing on their daily dose of entertainment will finally be able to enjoy all new and fresh episodes of the entertainment series. 

Almost all the channels have resumed back, shooting of their serials. During the break time, many of Hindi GECs revised their new programming strategies. 

The TV ratings of Star Plus and Zee TV have dipped significantly even from the last week of repeat programming for the 47th week. However, Colors has stayed the same as last week with 199 GRPs. 

Here’s a sad news for the fans of the Perfectionist Khan aka Aamir Khan.

Veteran writer Shakuntala Devi has created a sensation by saying that the movie ‘Taare Zameen Par’ is a scene-by-scene copy of his novel ‘In the Wonderland Of Numbers’.

The 69 year writer claims that her book talks about a nine year old girl suffering from dyslexia much like the character of Ishaan Awasthi played by Darsheel Safary.

According to Shakuntala, some of the sequences in the movie have been copied chapter by chapter from her book.

The Karnataka police arrested the wife of notorious forest brigand Veerappan on the Karnataka-Tamil Nadu border in connection with crimes, she committed along with her deceased husband.

Muthulakshmi, wife of Veerappan, the man who haunted the states of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu for several years, was arrested by the Karnataka police near Mettur early Wednesday morning.

The most awaited flick ‘Chandni Chowk to China’ has linked up with the new edition of MTV's thrilling realty show ‘Roadies: Hell Down Earth’.  

According to the sources, the film and the show share something that is ‘action’ and ‘thrills’.

The sources further revealed that trouble - double duo Raghu and Rajiv, along with the stunning model turn actress Deepika Padukone has announced the tie-up, and kicked off this exciting journey to the world’s most dangerous country - Australia.